General Stores and Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 December 1959. Shop, house. 4 related planning applications.

General Stores and Homestead

WRENN ID
other-oriel-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maldon
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 December 1959
Type
Shop, house
Address
General Stores and Homestead, Maldon Road, Langford, CM9 4SS
OS grid reference
TL 838 089
Coordinates
51.74912, 0.66171
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The General Stores and Homestead is a shop and attached cottage with early 18th century features. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a red plain tiled roof. There is a red brick chimney stack on the right and a square attached rear chimney stack. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring a five-window range on the first floor with three-light casements and transoms to the centre lights. The ground floor also has a five-window range, which includes a 19th century bay shop window with glazing bars and casements with transoms. There is a 20th century shop door with a top light and a pentice board above it. To the right, there are two doors, one of which is a 20th century glazed door, while the far right door has two panels and two lights with a moulded surround and a pentice board above. The small rear wings include a bake house, and there is a single-storey, weatherboarded extension with a red pantiled roof to the left.

Local climate

General Stores and Homestead sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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